The fight to lower drug prices has featured a war between the big drug companies and the businesses known as Pharmaceutical Benefit Managers (PBMs), each blaming the other for the outrageous costs of urgently needed pres ...
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Medicare to Select Drugs for Lower Price Negotiations
According to The Hill, a news outlet in Washington, D.C., “The first ten drugs selected for Medicare price negotiation will be announced by Sep. 1 and will set the stage for unprecedented government action regulating dru ...
Health Records of 612,000 Medicare Enrollees are Stolen
It was announced this past weekend that more than 600,000 people in the US Medicare program may have had personal data, including medical records, exposed through a data breach. The data was on systems belonging to Ma ...
With So Much Left to do, Congress takes a Vacation for the Next Six Weeks
With So Much Left to do, Congress takes a Vacation for the Next Six Weeks The members of Congress left town late last week for their annual August recess. However, they left a huge pile of work with little time left ...
July – August Advisor
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Debt Ceiling Crisis Over – But Will Government Shutdown Be Next?
When Congress returns to work next week, they face another approaching deadline: the end of the fiscal year and the need to keep the federal government operating in FY 2024. The fiscal year for the federal government ...
TSCL is a “Go To” Source by National Media
Once again, TSCL is the source that national reporters go to for information about Social Security and Medicare. In an article titled “Here’s What the Average Social Security Payment Will Be in Summer 2023,” the web ...
GOP Senator Wants More Pressure on PBMs
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wants to see his party’s leadership turn up the pressure on pharmacy benefit managers. “They talk in such generalities on this subject that it’s difficult for me to tell where they’re comi ...
Ongoing Fight Over Efforts to Lower Prescription Drug Prices
After losing the drug pricing fight on Capitol Hill, PhRMA, the lobbying arm of the big drug companies, is taking its battle to the courts. The pharmaceutical industry’s biggest lobbying group filed a lawsuit challeng ...
Senate Works on Bill to Lower Prescription Drug Costs
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee has passed bipartisan legislation that improves the transparency of Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) so patients can know what they’re expected to pay an ...